Even if Americans gained some improvements in their health status, due to decrease in smoking rates and advances in the medical field, the rate of obesity is at an all-time high. Moreover, the rate keeps increasing at worrying rates, as the latest report on the matter demonstrates. Obesity is a national health issue for decades now, but the results of a research published today in Journal of … [Read more...]
New Study Links Obesity and Cancer
A massive new study’s results were recently made public and it goes to confirm yet again that obesity and cancer are tightly linked. The research involved more than 5 million adults living in the United Kingdom with a high body mass index. It was revealed that having a high BMI will increase the risk of developing 10 of the most common cancers: ovarian and breast cancers after menopause, kidney, … [Read more...]
Lack of exercise, not Caloric intake to be blamed for Obesity in US
Health experts and dieticians always press for eating healthy foods and keeping the fatty, high cholesterol and junk food items at bay. But a new study has found that it’s not food that is to be blamed but the unhealthy lifestyle, lack of physical activity and exercise are the real culprits that are deforming your shape. The new Stanford study was published in The American Journal of Medicine. … [Read more...]
Cool Environments Stimulate Growth, Says Research
Staying in a cool environment may help you stay fit as researchers have discovered that such environment stimulates growth of brown fat that burns energy to generate heat and may protect people from diabetes and obesity. Ambient temperatures can influence the growth or loss of brown fat in people. Cool environment stimulate growth, warm environment loss, the research showed. Previous studies … [Read more...]
“The End of Obesity”, FDA to Propose surgically implanted weight-loss device
The Food and Drug Administration advisory committee meets on Tuesday to consider the premarket application of a new surgically implanted weight-loss device for patients with severe obesity. The device, called the Maestro Rechargeable System, works by delivering an electronic signal called VBLOC therapy to the trunks of the vagus nerve, a cranial nerve which extends from the brain stem to the … [Read more...]
Obese Individuals Cancer Risk is Reduced By Weight-Loss Surgery
According to a recent study Health Day News apart from helping the obese people shed extra pounds, weight-loss surgery may also lower their chances of a cancer diagnosis. Bariatric surgery reduces the risk of cancer to rates almost similar to those of people of normal weight, say the researchers from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. According to Doctor Cy Stein, … [Read more...]
White Bread Eating can Lead to Obesity, Weight Gain
Despite being staple diet in most pantries, the truth behind white bread is that it doesn’t add any nutritional value. The bread contains a high amount of sugar and it cannot completely satisfy your hunger so you start feeling hungry within a few hours. A new study presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Bulgaria this week suggests that people consuming large amount of white bread are … [Read more...]
Diet sodas help in cutting obesity, Weight Loss?
Is drinking soda, especially diet soda good for cutting extra pounds. Dr. Jim Hill says he often faces such queries from patients in his weight loss program at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Health and Wellness Center. For the study, Hill involved approximately 300 adults and divided them into two groups: One group that continued drinking diet Second group-referred as the water … [Read more...]
Obesity epidemic goes global, study finds 30 percent of world’s population overweight
About 29 percent of the world's population, i.e. 2.1 billion people, were either overweight or obese in 2013, says a study released on Thursday. According to the study, nearly two out of three of the obese live in developing countries. Today, 36.9 percent of the world's men and 38 percent of women are overweight or obese, the study found. The study was led by researchers at the Institute for … [Read more...]
Bullied 16-year-old Edgar Hernandez loses 200 pounds, Completes Marathon
Everyone in 16-year-old Edgar Hernandez’s family had a weight problem. His parents also developed type 2 diabetes in their forties. But Edgar’s case was the biggest concern. The news of he being a pre-diabetic came as a shock for the 16-year-old. Edgar lives in a suburb of St. Louis and is now 18. Edgar was 370 pounds and couldn’t stand to look at himself. His mother was into tears at the … [Read more...]
